Ok, here's a shot at it. The code below is mostly from some working Validation code, but the errorPlacement is something I have not use and not tested. The errorContainer and showErrors options are not needed if you only show the error message at the HTML element. I left them in to show how these and other options are used. I'm pretty sure appendTo will put the error message next to something, but I'm unsure about the arguement inside appendTo. You may need to try some things and read about appendTo and errorPlacement. Here goes - good luck